The Hopkinsville City Council swore in new Hopkinsville Police Department officer Cassidy Martinez during Mayâs first city council meeting Tuesday night.
Before Mayor Wendell Lynch recited the oath to Martinez, HPD Chief Clayton Sumner gave the council a background on the 21-year-old officer.
Martinez, originally from New York, graduated from Christian County High School in 2017 and was hired as a Public Safety Officer for the department in April 2018.
After graduating from the Department of Criminal Justice Training Police Academy in Richmond, Kentucky and turning 21, she was hired as an officer, Sumner said.
Martinez will be working with senior police training officers within the department for the next six months and following her graduation from the internal program will be sent out on solo patrols, Sumner added.